From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jon Fullmer <jon@jonfullmer.com>
Subject: Re: Here's an easy one
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:06:16 -0700
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To: Andrew Kelly <akelly@transparency.org>, Linux Admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>

It sounds to me like you would want to masquerade your domain in your
sendmail configuration.  If you add these lines to your mc file:

MASQUERADE_AS(domain.name)dnl
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl

And build a new sendmail.cf file, that should do it. The thing to remember
here then is that ALL e-mail being sent by sendmail on this host will send
mail as "@domain.name".  That sounds like what you want, though.

Hope this helps.

 - Jon

on 3/20/03 6:55 AM, Andrew Kelly at akelly@transparency.org wrote:

> 
> ..or at least I assume it is and I just can't thinks straight
> with this head cold.
> 
> Hi all; quick hostname question:
> 
> When mail is sent to a local user (mail -s "bla" user < file)
> it's passed to the MTA as user@localhost. The same is passed
> as the From address when the vacation program is run by user.
> 
> So where does the localhost expansion take place?
> 
> My problem here is that I'm getting
> user@host.domain.name
> when what I want is
> user@domain.name
> 
> I'm flying RH 7.2 and Sendmail 8.12.5 (patched) on this
> particular box, by the way.
> 
> Sendmail -d0.1 -bt </dev/null gives me these responses
> ============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
>     (short domain name) $w = host
> (canonical domain name) $j = host.domain.name
>        (subdomain name) $m = domain.name
>             (node name) $k = host
> ========================================================
> 
> which I keep reading as exactly what I want.
> 
> When I send mail from an application, be it Pine from a
> console or Netscape from a GUI, everything is as I'd hope.
> My mail goes off as me@domain.name
> If I send it from the command line with, say,
> mail -s "blaaaa" address < file, or
> senmail user <file it goes off as
> me@host.domain.name
> 
> In my sendmail.cf
> host.domain.name is listed nowhere,
> only, domain.name
> 
> I'm choking on this one and I know I shouldn't be. It's
> like wondering why $var = 1 is not doing what it should
> and 2 days of debugging hasn't helped and it only takes
> a fresh pair of eyes 5 seconds to see that you really
> meant $var == 1
> 
> ...making me crazy.
> 
> 
> Can anybody hold my hand?
> 
> Andrew
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